Index: core/units/helpers/curl_helper.php
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--- core/units/helpers/curl_helper.php	(revision 12813)
+++ core/units/helpers/curl_helper.php	(working copy)
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@
 
 		function prepareOptions()
 		{
+			if ($this->followLocation && ((defined('SAFE_MODE') && SAFE_MODE) || ini_get('open_basedir'))) {
+				// this won't work with such restrictions, so turn it off
+				$this->followLocation = false;
+			}
+
 			$default_options = Array (
 				// customizable options
 				CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => $this->followLocation ? 1 : 0,
Index: in-news/units/articles/articles_event_handler.php
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--- in-news/units/articles/articles_event_handler.php	(revision 12813)
+++ in-news/units/articles/articles_event_handler.php	(working copy)
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
 			/* @var $curl_helper kCurlHelper */
 
 			$curl_helper->followLocation = true;
-			$curl_helper->setOptions( Array (CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Wget/1.10.2') ); // otherwise FeedBurner will return HTML
+			$curl_helper->setOptions( Array (CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; ru; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)') ); // otherwise FeedBurner will return HTML
 
 			$xml_data = $curl_helper->Send($event->getEventParam('source_url'));